Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in
serving science, today announced that Eastman Chemical Company, a large global
manufacturer of chemicals, fibers and plastics, has expanded its deployment of
Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS (laboratory information management
system), which it has used since 2000 in its manufacturing quality control laboratories,
to its Corporate Technology Analytical Laboratories. For the implementation,
Eastman Chemical Company also chose Thermo Scientific Connects, which enables
the LIMS to be fully integrated with the laboratory's instruments and can be
integrated with other proprietary databases and ERP (enterprise resource
planning) systems enterprise-wide.
Eastman Chemical Company manufactures chemicals, fibers
and plastics materials used by its customers to make common consumer products.
The company is the first manufacturer in the U.S. to develop and commercialize
technology that derives chemicals from coal rather than petroleum. With 2010
sales revenue of $5.8 billion, the company has 13 major manufacturing
facilities around the world.
Eastman Chemical Company selected Thermo Scientific
SampleManager LIMS for its ability to operate a certified interface with SAP,
and the system has integrated seamlessly with it since implementation. Based on
the successful deployment of SampleManager LIMS at its quality control
laboratories across
13 sites in eight countries, Eastman Chemical extended
the LIMS implementation to its Corporate Technology Analytical Laboratories,
located at its Tennessee headquarters.
"The Technology division selected Thermo Scientific
SampleManager because it was easy to use and could be easily configured and
managed in-house at Eastman Chemical," said James Watson, systems analyst at
Eastman Chemical Company. "We have reduced costs by eliminating paper reports,
working electronically and involving sample submitters in the process by giving
them access to results in real-time. LIMS standardization is the solution
required in today's high throughput analytical laboratories."
To achieve optimal quality control, Eastman Chemical
needed a coherent strategy that would integrate data between the LIMS, ERP
multiple instruments and ELNs (electronic laboratory notebooks) across the
enterprise. "The overall integration of our connected informatics solutions
provides a seamless and secure quality control environment at Eastman Chemical
Company," added James Watson.
"The world's largest manufacturing and petrochemical
organizations rely on our integrated LIMS solutions to help them maintain their
quality and production standards," said Dave Champagne, manager, Thermo Fisher
Scientific Informatics. "We are excited to be working with Eastman Chemical,
making it easier for them to work in a pressured environment with increasing
requirements to conduct projects professionally, on-time and within budget.
Thermo Scientific Connects assisted in the effort,
integrating application-specific workflows and helping transform laboratory
data into relevant business information that maximizes enterprise system
investments and better supports critical management decisions in a
resource-constrained environment."
For more information about Thermo Scientific informatics
solutions, please call +1-866-463-6522 (US), +44 161 942 3000 (Intl), e-mail
marketing.informatics@thermofisher.com
or visit
www.thermoscientific.com/informatics.
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